Oct 24 Top Thirty Standup Comedians By Poll (2018-2019)

2018 CONNOISSEUR POLL

BEST STAND-UP COMEDIANS (NEW YORK/LONDON)

The following results were collated from four separate polls taken on two occasions in two cities (London and New York). These were intended to be polls of the stand-up comedy literate taken at selected spots in the two cities: Rupert Street / Shaftesbury Avenue corner in London and 6th Avenue / W4th Street in Manhattan.

Filter question was contained in the poll itself. The person polled simply had to rank his/her own top five comedians. Those whose top five comedians had less than two names in the top 30, as tallied across all other votes, are filtered out. Those whose top five comedians had two or more in the top 30 become eligible for inclusion and their votes give points: 1 for 5th, 2 for 4th, 3 for 3rd, 5 for 2nd, 8 for 1st place.

300 eligible top fives each were gathered during September 2018 in both cities followed by a further 200 top fives each gathered in both cities in the first week of October 2018.

Tamsin Arnold is a pseudonym - an anonymous contributor and experienced reader/editor with the following bio: born before the internet, matured online, schooled by books and whatipedias, Tamsin Arnold is a gestalt identity born of time dilated into a relative space.

Tamsin Arnold is a pseudonym - an anonymous contributor and experienced reader/editor with the following bio: born before the internet, matured online, schooled by books and whatipedias, Tamsin Arnold is a gestalt identity born of time dilated into a relative space.

I have of late but wherefore I know not lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame - the earth - seems to me a sterile promontory.

— Shakespeare, Hamlet Act II Scene II

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